Whenever a Muslim performs his daily prayers, he has to begin every Raka by reciting Soorah al-Fatiha. But some of us may be ignorant of the essence of this surah with which the Holy Qur'an opens, thought it was not revealed first.

In this book Sameh Strauch explains that essence, producing stories of Fatiha's cure effect, the other names given to it and disagreement among Muslim scholars on whether "Bismillah" is a part of that soorah.